YES - John Andrews, senior service manager, Rainer Northamptonshire
From my experience, young people are no worse than 20 years ago. But you wouldn't believe it by looking at the way young people are portrayed in the media.
The negative labelling of young people as "yobs" and "hoodies" has led to this distorted view that the youth of today are out of control. In fact, the vast majority of young people in this country are well-behaved, law-abiding members of their communities. The problem is that we hear very little about them.
This year is Rainer's bicentenary and if you look back to 1806 you find the equivalent of antisocial behaviour even back then. In fact, newspaper reports suggested "hanging's too good for them".
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